REMAINS OF FORMER KIRBY HALL, AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, WALLS AND CARRIAGE GATE PIERS

REMAINS OF FORMER KIRBY HALL, AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, WALLS AND CARRIAGE GATE PIERS, KIRBY HALL ESTATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190739
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1966
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF FORMER KIRBY HALL, AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, WALLS AND CARRIAGE GATE PIERS
Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF FORMER KIRBY HALL, AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, WALLS AND CARRIAGE GATE PIERS, KIRBY HALL ESTATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190739
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF FORMER KIRBY HALL, AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, WALLS AND CARRIAGE GATE PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: REMAINS OF FORMER KIRBY HALL, AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, WALLS AND CARRIAGE GATE PIERS, KIRBY HALL ESTATE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF FORMER KIRBY HALL, AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, WALLS AND CARRIAGE GATE PIERS, KIRBY HALL ESTATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kirby Hall
National Grid Reference:: SE 45764 60918

Details

KIRBY HALL KIRBY HALL ESTATE SE 4460-4560 10/33 Remains of former Kirby 15/3/66 Hall, and attached gateway, walls and carriage-gate piers (part formerly listed as Curtain Wall at Kirby Hall) GV II Remains of country house and forecourt walls, yard gateway and carriage- gate piers. 1747-c.1755. By Lord Burlington and Roger Morris for Stephen Thompson. Limestone ashlar. House wall with angled and quadrant wall at left. 7-bay, rusticated house basement with former portico-opening in centre flanked by square window openings beneath flat arches of voussoirs. To left, yard gate in rusticated, segment-arched opening in wall with moulded cornice and ball finials. Round-headed plank door with pegged-on panelling. Forecourt walls are approximately 2.25 metres high, on plain plinth, with square-section pilaster piers and ball finials, and ramped up to yard gateway. Angled section left of yard gate is balustraded, on moulded plinth, with moulded coping. Banded rusticated, square-section carriage gate piers, approximately 4.5 metres high on moulded bases, with moulded cornices, stepped-up caps and pineapple finials. The Hall was demolished in the early 1920s and is illustrated in Vitruvius Brittanicus, Vol.V, plates 70 and 71. See also: H.Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects, 1660-1840; Country Life, 17 February, 1972,p.388; York Georgian Society Annual Reports for 1972 and 1985; York Georgian Society, The Works in Architecture of John Carr.

Listing NGR: SE4576460918

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 331848
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
The Works in Architecture of John Carr, (1973)
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
'Country Life' in 17 February, (1972), 388
'York Georgian Society Annual Report' in York Georgian Society Annual Report, (1972)
'Vitruvius Britannicus' in Vitruvius Britannicus, , Vol. 5, (), Pl. 70-71
'York Georgian Society Annual Report' in York Georgian Society Annual Report, (1985)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.